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袂

Translingual

Han character

袂 (radical 145 衣+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中木大 (LDK), four-corner 3523₇)

sleeves

References

KangXi: page 1113, character 10

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34154

Dae Jaweon: page 1579, character 5

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3080, character 2

Unihan data for U+8882

Chinese

simp. and trad.		袂

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夬) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
袂	*mɡʷeds
夬	*kʷraːds
快	*kʰʷraːds
駃	kʰʷraːds, kʷeːd
筷	*kʰʷraːds
炔	*kʷeːds
觖	kʰʷeds, kʷeːd
缺	kʰʷed, kʰʷeːd
蒛	*kʰʷed
吷	*qʰʷed
妜	qʷed, qʷeːd
決	kʷeːd, qʰʷeːd
訣	*kʷeːd
抉	kʷeːd, qʷeːd
玦	*kʷeːd
芵	*kʷeːd
赽	*kʷeːd
鴂	*kʷeːd
鈌	*kʷeːd
决	*kʷeːd
疦	kʷeːd, qʰʷeːd
蚗	*kʷeːd
趹	*kʷeːd

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): mèi (mei⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mai⁶
Min Nan (POJ): ńg / úiⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: mèi
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˋ
  - Wade-Giles: mei⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mey
  - IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mai⁶
  - Yale: maih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mai⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /mɐi̯²²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ńg
  - Tâi-lô: ńg
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ngr
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ŋ̍⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ŋ̍⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ŋ̍⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ŋ̍⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ŋ̍⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: úiⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: uínn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: vuie
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /uĩ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /miᴇi^H/▼

Rime
Character	袂
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	彌獘切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/mjæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miaj^H/
Li Rong	/miɛi^H/
Wang Li	/mĭɛi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ɛi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mì

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*k.mˤet/, /*k.met-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*mɡʷeds/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	袂	袂
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mèi	mèi
Middle Chinese	‹ kwet ›	‹ mjiej^H ›
Old Chinese	/k.mˤet/ (dialect: k.m- > MC kw-)	/*k.met-s/
English	sleeve	sleeve
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	袂
Reading #	1/1
No.	4405
Phonetic component	夬
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*mɡʷeds/

Definitions

袂

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Compounds

分袂
分首判袂
奮袂攘襟／奋袂攘襟
奮袂而起／奋袂而起
把袂
投袂
投袂援戈

投袂荷戈
捧袂
接袂成帷
揄袂
揮袂／挥袂
摻袂／掺袂
攘袂

攘袂切齒／攘袂切齿
攘袂扼腕
聯袂／联袂
舉袂成幕／举袂成幕
袂聳／袂耸
連袂／连袂
長袂／长袂

Japanese

Kanji

袂

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

On: べい (bei), けつ (ketsu)

Kun: たもと (tamoto)

Noun

袂 ‎(hiragana たもと, romaji tamoto)

sleeve of a kimono
vicinity of a bridge
foot of a mountain

Korean

Hanja

袂 • ‎(mye) (hangeul 몌, revised mye, McCune-Reischauer mye, Yale myey)

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